EVE Online: The Second Genesis Preview at Waterthread.org

Dubbed a beta review, an unfavorable opinion of CCP's upcoming online title based on three hours of play.

By IGN Staff

After the aforementioned duration of gameplay some weeks earlier, the writer of an EVE beta review posted last week found insufficient reason to continue:

Bear in mind, I only spent maybe 3 hours in the game, so I'm quite willing to admit I may be completely wrong about this game. I crashed once during that time. It didn't seem to have huge technical issues, and it ran well on my 1.2 Ghz AMD with a Geforce 2 MX 400. It seemed to be a moderately stable beta. Also keep in mind this was almost a month ago, before Shadowbane was released and I got sucked into the world of Aerynth. There may well be a fun game in there somewhere. But for me, the litmus test is not "is the game fun after 20 hours of tedium?" It's "Is this game fun right now and do I think it'll only get MORE fun the more I play it?"

In the case of Eve, I didn't see much point in continuing. The genre appeals to me and the graphics scream out at me, but the game lacks that intangible thing called fun.

Coincidentally, whether online worlds are fun is the topic of our Online Worlds Roundtable #4, Part 3 posted today. The article contains links to the two previous segments of this month's discussion in which a total of nine online developers took part, each representing a different title or studio. - Jonric